New York City Is Suing Five Of The World's Largest Oil Companies Over Climate Changeiflscience.com ^ | 1/10/2018 | unknown Posted on 1/10/2018, 4:05:46 PM by rktman

Today, New York City took the climate advocacy fight to the fossil fuel industry's doorstep.

NYC mayor Bill de Blasio officially announced that the city will be the first to divest all its pension funds – a total of $191 billion – from fossil fuels. That means roughly $5 billion in fossil fuel investments will be taken away from fossil fuel companies, which is reportedly the largest of any municipality to date.

At the same time, the city has launched legal action against five major oil organizations: ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and ConocoPhillips. Arguing that they played a key role in anthropogenic climate change, New York City is asking that they pay for the defensive measures the metropolis is having to put in place in order to stave off climate-associated damage.

“If there were any deniers before Hurricane Sandy, I don’t think there were any more afterwards,” the mayor explained at a press conference earlier today.

The mayor of Oakland, California, is vowing to face jail time to protect illegal aliens from facing America’s immigration laws as the Trump administration plans to ramp up its enforcement of those laws, a report says.During his campaign for president and several times since, President Donald Trump has threatened to starve so-called “sanctuary cities” of federal funding. Some reports recently claimed that the administration is set to focus on California for a new wave of raids setting the stage for more deportations of illegals.

With the pressure on sanctuary cities, especially in California, Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is grandstanding that she would risk going to jail to oppose immigration officials from deporting illegals in her town.

In an interview with San Francisco’s CBS affiliate, Schaaf slammed Trump as the “bully in chief.”

“It is no surprise that the bully in chief is continuing to try to intimidate our most vulnerable residents,” Schaaf said. “We’re very clear that our values are to protect all of our residents regardless of where we come from. We want to protect families, not tear them apart.”

“We are exercising our legal right to be a Sanctuary City and to protect our residents,” the mayor added. “The fact that the federal government is suggesting that it is actively retaliating against jurisdictions that are exercising their right to have sanctuary policies — that is what is illegal.”

Schaaf said she is willing to go to jail to protect illegal aliens.

The Oakland City Council firmly backed the mayor, too.

Firstly, Oakland has set aside one million in tax dollars to help defend illegals who are gathered up by immigration officials. Secondly, the council voted unanimously to discontinue cooperation with ICE officials.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Firearms manufacturer Weatherby Inc. is relocating its manufacturing operations and corporate headquarters from California to Wyoming, marking another catch by Wyoming of a company abandoning a state that isn’t as gun friendly.

Weatherby’s move to Sheridan is expected to create 70 to 90 jobs and more than $5 million in annual payroll over the next five years.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doubled down on her claim that a $1,000 bonus is just “crumbs” for middle-class Americans.

“There’s a little mouse trap who’s got a little piece of cheese on there and there’s a mouse about to take it and that’s called the middle class,” Pelosi said of workers getting bonuses as a result of the GOP tax cuts. “And around it are fat cats, they look a lot like elephants but anyway, around there. And that’s the thing. Get this little thing and we get this big bonanza. You get the crumb, we get the banquet.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi doubled down on her claim that a $1,000 bonus is just “crumbs” for middle-class Americans.

“There’s a little mouse trap who’s got a little piece of cheese on there and there’s a mouse about to take it and that’s called the middle class,” Pelosi said of workers getting bonuses as a result of the GOP tax cuts. “And around it are fat cats, they look a lot like elephants but anyway, around there. And that’s the thing. Get this little thing and we get this big bonanza. You get the crumb, we get the banquet.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ..

She's disconnected. Any of the guys who work for me would be thrilled with $1,000.

She's disconnected. Any of the guys who work for me would be thrilled with $1,000.

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus slammed Democrats for downplaying $1,000 bonuses from companies as a result of the Republican-led tax plan.

The remarks come after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced the large company bonuses as "crumbs that they are giving workers" as corporate America reaps the financial reward from the Trump tax bill. The former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz also shrugged off the bonuses as insignificant, saying that, "I'm not sure that $1,000—which is taxed, taxable—goes very far for almost anyone."

Marcus predicted that Democrats will lose the next election if they continue to refer to the bonuses as "crumbs" to people in America who consider the money "a lifeline" because they appear out of touch with voters.

"I can tell you that $1,000 is more than meaningful. It could be paying the mortgage, it could be paying for a car repair. It could be paying for a past-due bill," Marcus said. "These are the things that the Pelosi-Schumer group don't have a clue about. It's why they lost the election; it's as simple as that."

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus slammed Democrats for downplaying $1,000 bonuses from companies as a result of the Republican-led tax plan.

The remarks come after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denounced the large company bonuses as "crumbs that they are giving workers" as corporate America reaps the financial reward from the Trump tax bill. The former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman Schultz also shrugged off the bonuses as insignificant, saying that, "I'm not sure that $1,000—which is taxed, taxable—goes very far for almost anyone."

Marcus predicted that Democrats will lose the next election if they continue to refer to the bonuses as "crumbs" to people in America who consider the money "a lifeline" because they appear out of touch with voters.

"I can tell you that $1,000 is more than meaningful. It could be paying the mortgage, it could be paying for a car repair. It could be paying for a past-due bill," Marcus said. "These are the things that the Pelosi-Schumer group don't have a clue about. It's why they lost the election; it's as simple as that."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosispeaks to CNN's Chris Cuomo onJan. 29, 2018. (Photo: Screen grab/CNN)(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) went on CNN Monday night to express her fury at Republicans on the House intelligence committee who voted to release a classified memo dealing with the ongoing Russia investigation.

She accused Republicans of "dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence" to "cover up" the Russia investigation.

She said the four-page memo, written by Republicans on the House intelligence committee, is false, a "total misrepresentation," a threat to national security, and on top of that, a "distraction."

The Republican Party has, as I said, crossed over to cover-up. They're deadly afraid of the Russia investigation. We don't want the investigation to be anything but based on the law and the facts and let the investigation proceed. That's the right thing to do for our country. We have to be respectful of law. We have to be respectful of intelligence and the rest. And what they're doing is reckless in regard to both.

But the fact is also that it is a distraction from the fact that they passed a tax bill that gives 83 percent of the benefits to the top 1 percent. They'd like to distract from that. And 86 million middle-class Americans will pay more in taxes...They do give this gift to corporate America at the expense of our children's future. They don't want to talk about that. They don't want to talk about the fact that they have -- what they've done in terms of the president put forth a ridiculous memo on...on infrastructure which doesn't even go near what our country needs.

They are doing bad things in terms of immigration and the rest. What they do is they give you a nugget. They say, here's what we're doing on immigration. Isn't that wonderful? It looks so pretty, and while they do very unpretty things behind the scenes. Same thing with the tax bill. Isn't this a nice little thing we're giving you while we give-- And same thing again with intelligence. We're going to show you a memo. This is ridiculous. It's beyond ridiculous.

Pelosi also argued that Republicans voted to release the classified memo because "they can't keep government open."

"I want to tell you something. You're missing it. This is very big," Pelosi explained to CNN's Chris Cuomo. "This is very big in terms of -- in terms of what line they have crossed tonight. And it's shocking really but not surprising because they're desperate. And they're desperate because, look, they can't keep government open...Now they're trying to get their their fifth continuing resolution because they're incompetent and they're ineffective, and all they have to do is sit down and say, let's come to terms on how we're going to fund the government."

WATCH: Adam Schiff Claims Russia Has A Plan To Get Americans To Kill Each Other"The Russians would be thrilled if we were doing nothing but killing each other every day ..."Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBy RYAN SAAVEDRA February 5, 2018

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (CA) suggested that the Russian government promoted the Second Amendment on social media during the 2016 presidential election to encourage Americans to kill each other.

Schiff made his latest absurd remarks last week at a University of Pennsylvania event where he claimed that Russians were posting content "designed to pit us against each other, to exploit our divisions."

"They also trumpeted the Second Amendment," Schiff said. "Apparently, the Russians are very big fans of our Second Amendment. They don’t particularly want a Second Amendment of their own, but they’re really glad that we have one. The Russians would be thrilled if we were doing nothing but killing each other every day, and sadly we are."

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Schiff, who often floats conspiracy theories, recently went on two national TV shows to suggest that another Oklahoma-City style bombing is going to happen because President Donald Trump and the Republicans released the House Intelligence Committee's memo on Friday.

Democratic Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sent out a warning Saturday that Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may conduct a raid in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Schaff’s message came in a tweet, and claimed she had heard from multiple sources of a possible crackdown on illegal immigrants in the area. The Democratic mayor said she believes it was her “duty and moral obligation as Mayor to give those families fair warning when that threat appears imminent.”

The Democratic Mayor also said she was sharing the information ahead of time so no one panicked and residents have time to figure out what to do if they were detained by authorities. (RELATED: ICE Arrests Nearly 200 Convicted Criminal Illegal Immigrants)

“My priority is for the well-being and safety of all residents ― particularly our most vulnerable,” Schaaf continued in her statement. “And I know that Oakland is safer when we share information, encourage community awareness, and care for our neighbors.”

The news comes as ICE carried out raids on more than 100 businesses in the Los Angeles area just weeks before arresting 212 illegal immigrants over a five-day span.

MSNBC guest and Sirius XM radio host Mark Thompson said on Monday that he believes criticizing the FBI and law enforcement is a “high crime and misdemeanor.”

During a discussion about the Nunes memo and the subsequent Democratic response on MSNBC, Thompson said he had “never seen anything” like the criticisms of the FBI and law enforcement from Republicans.

“And the other thing, just to draw together, this whole thing with the NRA. The NRA and Trump are attacking local law enforcement. The White House is attacking the FBI,” Thompson said. “We’ve never seen anything like this coming from Republicans.”

According to Thompson, such attacks could be considered “seditious.”

“And as I’ve said on your show before, to me that’s seditious, which in and of itself is a high crime and misdemeanor,” he claimed. “If I were Mueller, I would go and pick him up today.”

“It seems Mueller is — well, while obviously investigating collusion. Mueller, while he’s investigating collusion, he’s also focusing on money laundering. He’s focusing on other aspects that may bring this to a different end than we may think,” Thompson explained.

LGBTQ activist Mark Purpura tried defending on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday a new proposal in Deleware that would allow children, through the assistance of their school, to change their gender or race without informing that child’s parents.

“The simple fact is that some parents are simply not going to be supportive of their child and may endanger the child’s safety or well-being to involve that parent in that decision,” Purpura, executive director of Equality Deleware explained.

“Who makes that decision?” Tucker Carlson countered.

“The school would make the decision but I think what’s missing here,” Purpura began to answer before Carlson, a Daily Caller co-founder, took control of the conversation.

“What’s missing is outrage,” he shot back at Purpura. “The school has no right to take away parental decision-making from parents. The children do not belong to school administrators. They are members of the family from which they came. How dare a school take that prerogative away from parents. Where did they get the right to do that?”

The pair continued to shout over each other until Purpura made the argument that the Deleware legislation isn’t that revolutionary.

“This regulation is similar to policies that have been implemented across the country in Oregon and Washington and Massachusetts,” he argued.

“Ok, going back like about six months,” Carlson laughed. “This has never happened in human history. We didn’t used to believe three years ago that you could change your sex or your race. So this is all brand new. So at least pay me the compliment of acknowledging this is brand new. This has never been tried.”

LGBTQ activist Mark Purpura tried defending on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday a new proposal in Deleware that would allow children, through the assistance of their school, to change their gender or race without informing that child’s parents.

“The simple fact is that some parents are simply not going to be supportive of their child and may endanger the child’s safety or well-being to involve that parent in that decision,” Purpura, executive director of Equality Deleware explained.

“Who makes that decision?” Tucker Carlson countered.

“The school would make the decision but I think what’s missing here,” Purpura began to answer before Carlson, a Daily Caller co-founder, took control of the conversation.

“What’s missing is outrage,” he shot back at Purpura. “The school has no right to take away parental decision-making from parents. The children do not belong to school administrators. They are members of the family from which they came. How dare a school take that prerogative away from parents. Where did they get the right to do that?”

The pair continued to shout over each other until Purpura made the argument that the Deleware legislation isn’t that revolutionary.

“This regulation is similar to policies that have been implemented across the country in Oregon and Washington and Massachusetts,” he argued.

“Ok, going back like about six months,” Carlson laughed. “This has never happened in human history. We didn’t used to believe three years ago that you could change your sex or your race. So this is all brand new. So at least pay me the compliment of acknowledging this is brand new. This has never been tried.”

your abject dishonesty is completely amazing and you get worse and worse every year...you absolutely know that he could not accomplish anything with a congress that was totally hostile against him from the very start.....if you're going to pontificate at least tell the full story and stop pandering to the idiot neocons on here

yeah.. when the leader of the GOP says we are not goin to cooperate with Obama.. it's a wonder he was able to get anything done

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday slammed as "unjust and cruel" a raid of illegal immigrants in California last week that netted hundreds of criminals, many with convictions for violent crimes -- but which was partially thwarted by a Democratic mayor who tipped off the public to the crackdown.

The four-day raid in the San Francisco Bay Area led to the arrest of 232 illegal immigrants, 180 of whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement said “were either convicted criminals, had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed” from the country and had come back illegally.

The arrests included 115 who "had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses, such as child sex crimes, weapons charges and assault, or had past convictions for significant or multiple misdemeanors."

But officials fumed after Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tweeted out a warning of the impending raid, a move which ICE Acting Director Tom Homan said led to as many as 800 illegal immigrants -- many with criminal convictions -- fleeing before they could be arrested.

The Department of Justice is currently reviewing Schaaf’s actions. A DOJ spokesman declined to comment on the status of that review to Fox News.

But Pelosi, in a statement Wednesday, appeared to take the side of the mayor, accusing the White House of terrorizing “innocent immigrant families.”

“Just last week, President Trump decided to terrorize innocent immigrant families in the Bay Area with his unjust and cruel raids,” she said.

Her remarks came after Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday night against California, arguing that three recently passed laws interfere with federal immigration policies.

"The Department of Justice and the Trump administration are going to fight these unjust, unfair and unconstitutional policies," Sessions is expected to tell California law enforcement officers in an address Wednesday.

Those laws the DOJ is fighting include a measure offering worker protections against enforcement actions and which DOJ officials claim prevent companies from cooperating with immigration officials. Another law, dubbed by critics as the "sanctuary state" bill, restricts state and municipal cooperation with federal authorities, including what information can be shared about illegal-immigrant inmates.

Pelosi said it marked “a new low” from the Trump administration and said the president was abusing the legal system “to push his mass deportation agenda.”

"The people of California will not be bowed by the Trump administration's brazen aggression and intimidation tactics,” Pelosi said. “Californians will continue to proudly keep our doors open to the immigrants who make America more American. We will fight this sham lawsuit and will fight all cowardly attacks on our immigrant communities."

An estimated 2.5 million immigrants are believed to be in California illegally. In the most recent figures, ICE has reported about 16 percent of its enforcement apprehensions take place in that state.